Isbrandtsen-Moller Co. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
300 U.S. 139 · 1937
Citation profile
104 federal appellate · 18 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 232 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2021 · most notably Hirabayashi v. United States (1943), United States v. Rock Royal Co-Op Noyes (1939)
104 federal appellate · 18 district · 19 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 43 · 28 U.S.C. § 46
Relies on Olmstead v. United States · United States v. Chemical Foundation, Inc. · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Baird · Baltimore Ohio Railroad Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 232 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Complaints to Board and investigations. “Any person may file with the Federal Maritime Board a sworn complaint setting forth any violation of this chapter by a common carrier by water, or other person subject to this chapter, and asking reparation for the injury, if any, caused thereby. The Board shall furnish a copy of the complaint to such carrier or other person, who shall, within a reasonable time specified by the Board, satisfy the complaint or answer it in writing. If the complaint is not satisfied the Board shall, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, investigate it in such manner and by such means, and make such order as it deems proper. The Board, if the complaint is filed within two years after the cause of action accrued, may direct the payment, on or before a day named, of full reparation to the complainant for the injury caused by such violation. “The Board, upon its own motion, may in like manner and, except as to orders for the payment of money, with the same powers, investigate any violation of this chapter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whatever doubt may be entertained as to the intent of Congress that the Shipping Board should be subject to transfer by the President ... Congress appears to have recognized the validity of the transfer and ratified the President’s action by the appropriation Acts of April 7, 1934, March 22, 1935, and May 15, 1936, all of which make appropriations to the Department of Commerce for salaries and expenses to carry out the provisions of the Shipping Act as amended and refer to the executive order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.